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PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO.
•UBBOftlPTION. tl.SO FEB ANNUM.
VOLUME XIV.
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, JUNE 21, 1894.
NUMBER 50.
OLVDK KINO AND D. H. ORONII
NEWS' SANS WHISKERS
Items of Interest Told As They Are
Told to Us.
WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED
Local Happenings Portrayed For General
; Edification and Amusement.
H. A. Allen, of Atkinson, was in the
city Tuesday.
Judge Kmkald went down to Omaha
yesterday morning.
Sheriff Hamilton wai in Hastings on
business last week.
George Merritt landed a fine six-pound
pickerel one day last week.
Tom Armstrong, of the Butte Gazette,
was in the city Monday evening.
For flour, corn, bran and all kinds of
teed go to the O'Neill Flour & Feed Co.,
J.L. Mack Manager. 88-tf
A very pleasant party of ladies and
gentlemen picnlced in Haynes’ grove
yesterday afternoon.
Hop. 0, J. Smyth, one of the leading
attorney# of Omabn, will apeak in
O’Neill on the Fourth.
Mrs. Wes Evans and Mrs. Chever
Uazelet returned last Friday evening
from their visit to Butte.
W. J. Dobbs left for Omaha yester
day where he goes to attend the session
of the Masonic grand lodge.
The best mutual insurance policy
against attacks of sickness is to be found
in taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Miss Garritson, of Oskaloosa, Io., ar
rived in the city Saturday night and will
visit a couple of weeks with her brother
Homer. ■_
Pat Biglin will deliver kerosene and
gasoline at your residence or place of
business. His wagon makes the rounds
every day. '_ 47-tf
John W. Transue, of Amelia, was in
the city yesterday and called at this
office and left a couple of shiners on
subscription.
FOUND—A gold watch and diamond
stud. Owner may have same by calling
at this office, proving property and pay
ing for this notice.
The attention of our readers is called
to the advertisement of J. H. Riggs, in
vestment broker, in another column.
Jim knows the value of printer’aink.
Sanford Parker was over from Spencer
Monday and Tuesday. Sanford says
be is not looking for legislative honors,
although he thinks a republican will be
elected this year.
Get your flour at McManus’; every
sack warranted to be first-class. He
has also a carload of chop feed, bran
and shorts which just arrived. See him
before you purchase elsewhere. 50-2
TAKEN UP—On see. 8, twp. 80, r. 11
w., one Arabian roan, bald-faced, mare
pony, heavy with foal. Owner will
please write or call on the undersigned,
pay charges and take the same away,
48-3 Thos Simonson, Agee, Neb.
Chadron Record: A. J. Handlan,
formerly of this city, was arrested last
week in Oregon, charged with irregular
ities during bis clerkship in the Perry
land office, in the Oklahoma territory.
He was taken back to Oklahoma, where
his trial will be held.
Butte Gazette: At a epecial session
of the district court, called by Judge
Bartow Wednesday evening, Hon. W.
B. Mathews, of O’Neill, was admitted
to the bar. Mr. Mathews has the nec
essary qualifications to make a success
ful lawyer, and we wish him success.
Edgar Thompson is building a mile
truck on the George Mitschell farm two
miles east of this city, and during the
summer will remove bis barns and fast
horses there, in order to give them
necessary track work for development.
Ed is an enterprising horseman and his
work in that line has done much for
O'Neill. _
It becomes Thb Frontier's pleasant
privilege this week to chronicle the
marriage of four of Holt county’s most
, respected young folks. On last Satur
day, at Ewing, Jake Boll and Margaret
Eay were united in matrimony, while
°n the day following J. F. Miller and
Birdie Cramer followed suit. Tub
EftdHTiBR congratulates.
State Journal, June 19: C. P. Rich
mond of Atkinson called yesterday at
the state house. He nas returned from
Oolumbus, Ohio, where he arrested A.
B Loose on requisition ot Governor
Crounse on the charge of disposing of a
stock of drugs with intent to defraud
creditors. Loose was taken to Atkinson
and liberated on giving a bail bond ot
*1,000.
Come to O’Neill to celebrate the
Fourth. A good time ia assured.
| Next Monday at 2 o'clock p. m. the
! annual school meeting will be held.
Ladies and gentlemen, go forth and do
your duty. __
Quitman has been in Iowa the past
week. During his absence the wind
quit blowing, it rained, the crops com
menced growing, the birds sang and all
nature seemed to be glad. P. 8.—Rain
will not fall on the unjust.
W. E. Hamlins, Chas Jebilson, C. P.
Richmond, H. Holquest, C. J. Nelson,
A. YV. Miller, C..M. Forney and W. E.
Scott are in the city today attending the
preliminary hearing of A. B. Loose,
who was arrested on the charge of dis
posing of property with intent to de
fraud creditors.
George Clark went down to Randolph
last week and with W. E. Hodgins, of
that place, secured the contract for put
ting up a fine large brick building. Thb
Frontier knows nothing about Mr.
Hodgins’ ability as a workman, but it
knows that when it comes to throwing
brick and morter into artistic columns
of masonry Geo. Clark has no superior
in the state.
Next Saturday night will be one long
to be remembered by the K. P.’s of
O’Neill, unless there is some slip ’twixt
the cup and the Up. On that night ten
applicants will be butted through the
three degrees by his fraternal goatship.
A team is expected from Stanton to do
the work, while visitors will be present
from Neligb, Oakdale, Randolph, Plain
view, Lincoln and Omaha. The F. E.
will run Agpecial to accommodate the
visitors.
People will read. They will read
a notice in a shop window perhaps, if
they see it. They will read a way-tide
sign likely, if they pass it and it strikes
their eye. They will read a circular
may be, if it gets into their mail and
they get it. They will read the news
paper certainly, for that is what they
buy them for. In other words, while
they may read the others because they
have to, they all read the newspapers
because they wish to. A man’s inter
est is usually considered of great advant
age when you are about to bring any
matter to his attention. In no other
kind of advertising can this be so as
sured as in the use of the newspaper
which he likes to read.
The O’Neill boys played ball at Ewing
last Saturday. The game was cut short
on account of lack of time, Ewing play
ing six innings and O’Neill five, the
score standing 10 to 17 in favor of
O’Neill. The game was rather inter
esting and witnessed by a large audience
of ladies and gentlemen. Following
are the names of the O'Neill players
with their respective positions: Mc
Bride, pitcher; Farrell, catcher; Mer
riman, first base: King, second base;
Cronin, third base; Gibbons, short stop;
Mathews, left field; O’Donnel, center;
Gillespie right. The boys all played
fair ball and were more than pleased
with the gentlemanly treatment they
received at the. hands of the Ewing
boys. The return game will be played
in O’Neill in a couple of weeks.
Omaha Bee, dune 19: At 8:30 last
evening while Lizzie Carroll, an old
domestic in the employ of the Del
monico hotel, was finishing her even
ing’s work, her brother, William Carrol),
of O'Neill, came in and, pulling a re
volver, aimed it at her, with the decla
ration that he was going to take her life,
becsose her hard work brought her too
much misery, and that when she was
gone he would die. With surprising
coolness Lizzie walked quickly up to
her brother, and before he could make
a motion, 6he had taken the revolver
from him. Then she caught him by the
hands and held him until Chief Brennan
came and took him to jail. He was
very much under the influence of liquor,
so much so that many believed delirium
tremens to be the cause of his act.
There is a general idea that the presi
dent’s salary of $50,000 a year is all that
he receives, and that, when compared
with the salaries paid the sovereigns of
Europe, this sum is not enough. This
is a mistake says an exchange. In ad
dition to bis salary the president
receives $30,064 to pay the salaries of his
clerks and subordinates. His private
secretary has $3,250; his assistant secre
tary $2,250; the stenographer gets $1,
800; each of five messengers $1,200; the
Stewart $1,800; each of two door keepers
$1,200, while the other employes are
paid in proportion, down to the man
who takes care of the fires, who receives
$1,864. In addition $8,000 are allowed
foi incidentals, such as stationary; $12,
500 for repairs and refurnishings; $12,
500 for fuel; $4,000 for greenhouse ami
$15,000 for the stable, gas and othei
incidentals. In all the president and
his house costs the country over $135,
000 per year.
Ban DeYarman left Sunday afternoon
for the east. He took with him hie
standard bred horses K S and Burtwood,
which he has entered in the New York
circuit. Horses in<his class will have
to strike a merrier clip than they have
up to date or Ben will show them a
trick in genuine Nebraska style.
Ira Kautzman, Claud Pond, Jim Trigg,
John Weekes, Jesse Mellor, Sam Thomp
son. Joe Mann, Charlie Cole, Charlie
O'Neill, Homer Garrlston, Nute Mul
lindore and Pat Biglin were among the
number that accompanied the ball team
to Ewing Saturday. They all bet tbelr
money the right way but Mellor.
We are in receipt of another com
munication this week relative to our
city schools. The article, although a
little forcible, might have found a place
in these columns had the author been
thoughtful enough to attach his signa
ture as a guarantee of good faith.
People desiring to contribute to this
paper will please bear in mind that this
rule is without exception. ,
Stuart Ledger: Deputy United 8talea
Marshal Coble made two tripa to Basin
and Naper last week and each time
brought back a man whom be took to
Omaha to appear before Judge Dundy,
of the federal court. The first was
John Shallagher, of Basin, an ex-saloon
keeper. The charge against him was
selling whiskey to Indians. He was
fined $125 and came home Sunday night.
Monday morning a saloon keeper of
Naper was taken to Omaha. The
charges against him was selling liquor
without license. This man, as we
understand it, is not guilty of any in
tentional wrong. He had made appli
cation to the county clerk of Boyd
county for a license and paid the money
therefore but for some reason he had
not received it.
Inter Ocean: This is weather in
which one may sing with zeal the old
; refrain “I want to be an angel." The
best authorities ajrree in the statement
that angels do not wear flesh, 'and are
impervious to the rays of the sun direct
or in refraction. Ethereal mildness Is a
property not confined to Thompson’s
Spring, and to have it in the shape of
visible but intangible angelhood, with
servicable but intangible wings, and
filmy draperies that can be seen but
may not be felt, is a consummation
more than devoutly to be wished when
the murcury is sizzling in the apex of
the thermometer. There must be a vast
satisfaction in being an angel when the
weather is not sbiverous. It was Syd
ney Smith who out of the plentitude of
a summer fry wailed out the wish that
he might take off his flesh and sit down
in his bones, probably in an arm chair
of ice. But when the gentleman who is
now working upon the model of a cold
storage battery to be worn in proximity
to the pistol pocket shall have completed
and applied his invention, mankind, and
womankind, too, for that matter, may
skip cheerily through the febrile days
triumphantly' superior to Smith’s ideal
and totally without envy of the cloud
capping seraphim. Pending the advent
of that auspicious day we must take our
calorics straight with what show of
grace we may, consoling ourselves with
the reflection that the inhabitants of
Tophet have some degrees the worst
of it.
Show us one man who admits that the
present newspaper editors of the land
can run the editorial department fully
as well as he could, and we will show
you one hundred men who are'free to
proclaim to all the earth that the edi
tors are no Rood, and that they could
run a newspaper as it should be run,
says the Clay Center Sun. Has it ever
been your experience to see any of these
boasters attempt to fill the editorial
chair? If it has, you have seen a miser
able failure, for they are generally one
idea men, and no man of that calibre
can successfully contribute to the varied
wants of the public. The really suc
cessful newspaper man don’t need
articles “to fill up his paper” as some
people think. His most earnest thoughts
are bent upon selecting from the over
abundance that which he thinks most
palatable to his readers, having always
in view the bestowal of useful knowl
edge. He esteems it a pleasure, how
ever, to have his attention drawn to
articles of merit. Kind reader, if vou
think tl>e average reader is a numskull
you have a splendid opportunity tc
fulfill the scriptures by being charitable,
remembering that he is not lo blame foi
being endowed with less brains that
you have, and while exercising i
gracious charity, be merciful, for, it
the dispensation of providence, wisel]
or unwisely, you might some day be
called upon to rattle around in th<
editorial chair like a lot of dry bones
and then, having looked with tendei
compassion upon the much abused quil
driver, you may hope for mercy thougl
you die in despair.
DM JDPITER PLUyraS
Contract for the Sooth Irrigation
Ditch la Let.
WILL BE COMPLETED NOV. 1
By Hast Tim the Problem Will Have
Been lolved.
It affords Tnn Frontier considerable
pleasure to be able to announce to its
readers this week that the contract has
been let for constructing the irrigation
ditch south of ths Elkhorn river, by the
Elkhorn Irrigation Company, and that
dirt will begin to fly on it in a few days.
C. H. Leace & Co., of Spencer, lo., are
the successful bidders. The contract
was closed yesterday. It provides for
the completion of the ditch by Novem
ber 1. This firm built the Fremont
canal last summer which drains the low
country near the city and irrigates a
great many thousands of acres of thirsty
soil on which the Standard Cattle Com
pany are now raising sugar beets for the
Norfolk factory.
roe jsmoorn irrigation Company *
proposed canal will be 13} miles long.
It takes th6 water out of the river on
section 23, township 30, range 18, or
about 10 miles west of O’Neill, and con
ducts it along tbe bluffs south to a point
on Dry Creek some four miles south of
town. It will irrigate one of the pret
tiest sections of the county, comprising
over 0,000 acres in extent. Fortunate
indeed are the settlers under this ditch
as it will make their crops a certainty
every year, barring possible damage
from bail of course, and enhance con
siderably the value of their lands.
H. H. Wade, a man of large experience
in contracting and knowledge and skill
in irrigating, represented Messrs. Leace
& Company in closing the contract. He
will have charge of the work in person,
and has already wired his company to
ship tools, etc., at earliest possible
moment.
While the ditch is being constructed
quite a number of Idle men will be able
to secure work on it, as it is the com
pany’ purpose to employ as much home
labor as they conveniently can.
To the Elkborn Irrigation Company
much credit is due for the energy and
good business judgment they have
displayed in pushing this matter to
such speedy and satisfactory conclusion.
Many similar enterprises take years to
consumate which this company hss
done in three short months. Clarence
Selah, tbe secretary, was given active
and personal supervision of the matter,
and with tbe intelligent and hearty co
operation of the rest of tbe officers, the
present happy results have been
achieved.
This ditch may be said to be tbe in
auguration of an age of irrigation in
northern Nebraska. Other similar
enterprises are sure to follow, and Thb
Fbontibk now and here wishes to
proffer to them its earnest assistance
and hearty goodwill.
We understand from tbe parties hav
ing tbe so-called “big ditch" project in
hand that the matter is progressing as
fast as an undertaking of such magni
tude well can.
Let the rood work go on until all the
surplus water of our rivers and creeks is
utilized to the purposes of agriculture
and our farms are made to produce to
their fullest capacity. With a soil and
climate par excellent all that remains
to make this one of the most pleasant
portions of God’s garden patch is water
when needed. Irrigation affords this.
It makes a sure crop country. The
Frontier says, the Lord hasten the day
when we do not depend upon the cap
prices of clouds for eur supply of water
to grow our crops. Wheh this arrives
old Holt will have redeemed herself and
residence here will be sought for instead
of shunned.
Basing At (Hoax City.
The Sioux City trotting will be
held June 26 to 29 inclusive, and the
Pacific Short Line has made a rate of a
fare and a third for the round trip from
all its stations. Tickets will be sold
daily from June 25 to 29, good to return
June 80.
We are pleased to be able to announce
that the publisher of the Inter Ocean
has made a special offer on the weekly
edition of that paper during the present
political enmpaign. He will send the
Weekly Inter Ocean for six months to
any subscribes on receipt of 80 cents.
This is a very low price for one of the
i best and ablest republican papers in the
i country. Subscriptions will be received
at this pi ice from June 1 to August 1.
• After that the regular prices will be
i restored. The Frontier for one year
i and the Inter Ocean for six months,
81.50.
MO MAM'S COLUMN.
Some of the girl* who Attended the
picnic Wednesday evening can wonder
with the poet:
How the busy little bee delights Its course to
wing.
And in the human system send about three
feet of sting.
These are times that try the souls of
newspaper men, it they have any such
thing, although such a conclusion would
be in direct opposition to the opinions
of the most learned. Times are1 dull;
there is no news, nothing to write about
and yet the skeleton forms rest com*
plncently on the imposing stone, eight
or ten emyty columns staring upward In
mute appeal, plainly saying: with what
will you All me? When business is dull
with the merchant, he growls; the
farmer watches the clouds and prays for
rain; the bankor raises the rate of inter
est; but the poor newspaper man—
nothing remains for him to do but sweat
under the collar and swear and wait for
something to turn that might furnish
him with a column article. 01 It's nice
to run a newspaper.
"A map of hell” hai been published,
■o 'tie said. Numerous people In this
looaltt/ ehould procure a copy and
■elect their location.
“In a moment of affection,
Filled wltn Joy eke oould not epealc,
Leaning on his arm sho clasped It,
While be gavo one piercing shriek.
“Tell me, dearest," she besought him,
‘Husyour fond love turned to hate?'
'No,'he gasped In mortal anguish,
‘But you grasped my vaccinate,'"
The unique Talmage, being about to
sail from San Francisco, wrote some of
his Brooklyn flock on the causes, as they
appeared to him, why his tabernacle wm
burned three times. One of the causes
he assigns thus: “Another reason why
I think this last church went down was
to keep me humble. The Lord had
widened my work through Christendom
and with two receptions the week be*
fore the conflagration, the one a city
reception, presided over by our mayor,
and the other a national and inter
national reception, presided over by
one of the chief men of the nation who
had recently stepped from the president
ial cabinet, and the occasion honored by
addresses and letters and cablegrams
from men of world-wide fame in church
and state, and the whole scene brilliant
beyond description, and in compliment
to myself, who was brought up a farm
er’s boy, there was danger that I might
become puffed up and my soul be
weakened for future work.”
“The wisdom of fools passes that of
wise men.” Gutzman stands a show.
Truly tbe almighty dollar is great
stuff, and during these bard times a
man will do almost anything rather than
part with a cart wheel. On day this
week a fellow with an arm broken and
dislocated came into a doctor’s office in
O'Neill and quietly Inquired what it
would cost to have his arm fixed. For
cold bloodedness that beats anything
this department has heard of for years
and years. (
“I don’t think it seemed the least bit
like a picnic."
“What was the matter?”
“Well, there wasn’t a single accident,
and not a drop of rain fell—although
some of the party did get a little angry
and the busy little bee got in his work
among the girls.”
Len Bartley was down from Atkinson
yesterday. _
Cards are out announcing the wedding
of Mr. P. J. Biglin to Miss Katie Daly,
at the Catholic church in this city on
Wednesday, June 27.
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Gallagher are in
Sioug City, where Mrs. Gallagher is re
ceiving medical treatment. The latest
advices are that she is improving.
Mrs. Newman, an old lady of 70 years
who resides 12 miles north of this city,
was quite seriously injured by her team
running away while in town last Tues
day. Mrs. Newman and her son came
to town and drove up to the butter and
egg office. Her son went in with a box
of eggs, and while waiting in the office
the team became frightened and started
to run throwing Mrs. Newman out of
the wagon, breaking her collar bone
and severly injuring her shoulder. She
was picked up and taken into the Ogden
hotel. Dr. Gilligan was summoned and
made an examination of the wounds.
The injured woman was then taken to
the residence of her daughter, Mrs. C.
W. Hagensick, where she is being cared
for. Owing to her age it is doubtful
whether she will recover or not
Letter List.
Following Is the list of lotters remaining In
the postoffioeat O'Neill, Neb., unclaimed, for
the week ending June SO. ISM:
P W Deveson (foreign) A J McMullan
In calling for the above please say “adver
tised." It not called for In two weeks they
will he sent to the dead letter offloe.
J. H. UioosP. M.
July fourth.
The following program baa been /
arranged for the coming 4th of Jolg.
plcinlc to be held in Wynn'a grove: '*! i
Proceaaion led by the O’Neill comet '
band will leave the eourt-houee at 10 '
o'clock, then to the grove one and one*
half mllea eaat of of O'Neill, where the
| speaker of the day, Hon. C. J. Smyth,
of Omaha, will deliver an addreaa.
Immediately after dinner theeporta
will oommence and will conalat of the
following:
Ha»e ball.MOW
Uun, hop, step and jump. 1 00
standing jump. . too
Running jump... 100
Three legged race.... .. 1 00
Sack race...................100
I'ootraoe. ...1 00
Hoy* foot race—under 13 jrr*. 00
I’ony race.till).Id 1 00
Hoy* bloycle raoe.,.1 00 ’
Free for all race. 3 00
Kggraoe. ....1 00
Fire work* In the evening. .
liower dance In the afternoon.
Hand dance at the rink la the evening.
Dinner will be aeryed on the gronnda
at 10 o’clock at 25c.
Prealdent of the day, Mayor Dlckaon.
Marahal of the day, Frank Campbell.
Th* Glorious Youth.
The Paeiflo Short Lino woo to yon to
celebrate, and to help you do it will tell
round trip ticketa between all stations
on July 8 and 4, good to return until
July 5, at greatly reduced rate*. Take
a day off. Once will never hart ^
'em. ®0-8
The novel in the June number of .
Taleo From Town Toplco la a aprightly
affair called “An Unapeakable Siren,” a
title that eloquently detcribeo the her
oine of the story, Nora Kazarin, who Is
a strangely faclnating young society
girl of very startling characteristics.
She is a hysterical and morbid creature,
that rather repels people at first, but './?
who grows on one, and ends by exerting
a terrible spell, a good deal after the
fashion of a snake. In telling his story
the author provides many brilliant
pictures of life in Mew York society,
and his character-drawing of modern
types is especially clever. “An Un
speakable Siren” is accompanied by a
collection of short stories, sketches,
poems and witticisms taken from the
back numbers of Town Topics. The
whole makes a bright summer volume.
Town Topics Publishing Company, 806 ,
Fifth avenue. Mew York City.
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Hood’s Pills are band made, and per
fect in proportion and appeuanre. 8So
per box. V
Special
Sale....
of Ladies' Sommer Jackets and
.Mena’ rammer Suite.
We here e good line of the leteet
■tylea in jackets, end aa we west
to close them out quickly, we
offer the following low price*,
although the season is not half
over:
$3 00 capes and jackets only 13 25
8 50 . • - • 8 70
4 00 - • • - - 8 05
4 50 * - - - 8 45
8 00 - . - * - 8 75
6 00 - - - - 4 50
7 00 - - - . - 5 25
8 00 - - • 5 85
9 00 .« 75
10 00 - - - - 7 45
o • o
In men’s light colored suits we
hare twenty-five we will sell at a
bargain. They are good weight
and can be worn until late in the
fall. We offer following prices:
$10 00 suits for $7 50
12 00 - - 8 95
18 00 - 9 75
15 00 - - 11 90
17 50 - 18 75
No old styles or old stock, but
many of the most stylish suits we
have.
We have Jnst received a new lot
of wash dress goods and trim
mings, embracing the latest nov
elties in this line of goods and
very desirable for this season.
J. P. Mann